Investment Readiness and Impact Delivery Support for Climate-Smart Cocoa Sourcing

I4DI is supporting Sucden to access concessional finance through AfDB’s ACFM/TAF facility, providing targeted advisory on proposal structuring, technical alignment, and partner coordination. The work forms part of I4DI’s broader approach to bridging DFIs and borrowers through impact infrastructure.

Income Impact Assessments for Clean Energy and Agri-MSMEs

I4DI is conducting rapid impact assessments for Shell Foundation to determine how clean energy and cold chain innovations are affecting net incomes for smallholder farmers and microentrepreneurs in India and Nigeria. By blending rigorous data methods with participatory insights, this work sheds light on what meaningful income uplift looks like, and what it takes to achieve it, across diverse and underserved communities.

Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) Framework Agreement for Monitoring & Evaluation Services

I4DI and SEO Amsterdam Economics are partnering to provide monitoring and evaluation services to the Dutch Government under the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) Framework Agreement. This project is designed to support RVO’s global development objectives, focusing on sustainability, gender equity, climate resilience, and responsible business practices across international supply chains. In this collaboration, I4DI leverages […]

Empowering Smallholder Farmers in India – Shubh Samriddhi Project in India

I4DI is thrilled to announce our new collaborative venture with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as an expansion of our partnership with Mars Inc. on the Farmer Income Lab. This project will help impoverished smallholder households reach a livable income through alignment between government priorities and private-sector interests to serve smallholder farmers and agribusiness SMEs in a gender equitable way.
Through this initiative, I4DI will provide focused MLE support to the Shubh Mint project in Uttar Pradesh, India. This initiative is a pivotal step towards transforming procurement practices and integrating smallholder farmers into inclusive and economically viable supply chains, marking a significant leap towards equity for the region’s agricultural community.

Charting a New Path in Advocacy with World Vision

World Vision (WV), a global leader in advocating for the rights and wellbeing of children, understands the imperative of robust Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) mechanisms to bolster its advocacy campaigns. Recognizing this need, WV has entrusted I4DI to bring our expertise to the forefront, enhancing the MEL systems of their pioneering “Enough Campaign.”

I4DI & Livelihoods Venture: A New Era in Impact Assessment & Operational Excellence

Livelihoods Venture (LV), committed to amplifying its impact through its Funds, projects, and investments, recognizes the transformative potential of strategic alignment. They have thus teamed up with I4DI to enhance LV’s impact pathways and revamp their MEL system. I4DI has already commenced with an in-depth analysis of LV’s existing MEL systems. Through a series of […]

Data Synthesis and Visualization of The Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) Award)

The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) has conducted data synthesis and visualization of the research and evaluations conducted by the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis, and Learning (REAL) Consortium funded by the USAID Center for Resilience within the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS). Led by Save the Children, the REAL consortium has undertaken research related to resilience […]

USAID Monitoring and Evaluation Training Services (METS)

The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI), a woman-owned small business, has been awarded a five-year, $2 million Monitoring and Evaluation Training Services (METS) contract to provide expertise and capacity-building services to USAID’s Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (REFS). This contract will support REFS staff to routinely apply rigorous monitoring, evaluation, and learning to track progress, facilitate performance-based and adaptive management, remain accountable on its commitments, and learn more about effective and evidence-based approaches to development objectives and outcomes in resilience, food and water security, sanitation and hygiene.

Provision of MEL E-Learning Materials for Heifer International

I4DI is creating 11 online training modules based on Heifer International’s new monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system manual and ten linked guides. The manual and linked guides operationalize various aspects of Heifer International’s new MEL Plan Package (MPP). This MPP provides structure to how Heifer International conducts MEL activities across the organization. The set […]

Conducting Rapid Appraisals of Rice Supply Chains in Asia – Mars Food

I4DI will generate evidence to help Mars understand the conditions, constraints, and opportunities for improving incomes at rice origin locations and to produce insights that will inform the design of new sustainable sourcing models in Cambodia, India, Pakistan and Thailand. In these four countries, I4DI is conducting rapid appraisals that include; a targeted analysis of […]

Program and Organizational Effectiveness Plan – Mars Inc.

I4DI provided performance management services to Mars. Inc covering business process review, knowledge asset mapping, technology systems review, and redesign of a comprehensive performance management system for activities supporting sustainable sourcing of cocoa in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Services included 1) a performance monitoring and impact evaluation plan to increase the sustainable impact of Mars Indonesia’s […]

Evaluation of the United Nations Cooperation Strategy (UNDCS) 2016-2020- UNDP Turkey

I4DI deployed a team to evaluate the overall performance of the UNDCS towards its development and humanitarian goals, based on the criteria of the OECD-DAC and the application of the principles underpinning the Human-Rights Based Approach, gender equality, Results-Based Management, capacity development, and sustainability. The evaluation applied a mixed-method approach and include the following methods: […]